The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-02-04

The Government revenues Tor Lne pres
ent month will exceed those of last JAN
uary by at least SIS, 900, 600.
IT is stated that the British have III
gunboats of light enough draught to sail
up the st. Lawrence and into Lake On
| tariO, where they could raise cain with
| our inland navigation in case of q breach
! between the two nations; and we have
nothing to cope with them, and could not
/ get them there if we had
AN interna tional exhibition of peoples
| food was opened on the 29th, at the
Crystal Palace at Beipsic, in the presence
Of the King and Queen of Saxony.
BLACK diphtheria is said to be- raging
northeast of Madison, Wis. On the night
! of the 2sth Peter Myers, a farmer, lost
five childen by the disease. The schools
at Wannakee have been closed and the
town is quarantlned-
| DAKOTA and Montana were visited on
the 29th by the worst blizzard known for
/ years. Trains in every direction were
either abandoned or were stuck fast in
the snow.
1T is announced at Ottawa, Ont, that
/ British war ships are to be sent to Cana
dian waters in the spring to aid the Cana
dian authorities in enforcing the fisheries
/ regulations.
! An immense ice gorge is formed in the
/ Susquehanna river, five miles from
| Wilkesbarre, Pa, and great damage is ex-
pected.
RIoTINe has been resumed at Belfast
/ and vicinity
THE sanitary condition of Buenos Ayres
/ is now reported good, cholera having dis
] appeared from Cordova.
TIE Berlin correspondent of the London
Daily Neaos says he hears that the whole
| German army is to be called out in SEQ
] tions of a. 900 men to be drilled in the use
4 of the repeating rife.
CONGRESSIONAL. Proceedings.
IN the Senate on the 25th Senator Fan well, OF
/ Illinois, took his seat. The conference report
/ on the Army Appropriation bill was agreed TO-
/ The conference report on the bill providing fOf
/ allotment OF lands in severalty to Indians
| was agreed to. The Chair announced his sigma
/ ture to the Interstate Commerce bill. The
! The woman suffrage resolution was debated,
/ voted on and lost, "a to 16. A number of bills
/ were passed making appropriations for public
| buildings. Adjourned. In the House the
| enrolled copy of the Interstate COM
I merce bill was sighed by the Speaker The con-
! tested election case Of Paige VS.. Pierce, from
| Rhode Island, was called up and caused q
rather acrimonious debate, after which the
majority resolution declaring the seat vacant)
was agreed to. Mr.. Hatch reported the Ag.
ricultural Appropriation bill, and the House ad-
/ ionrned-
| m the Senate on the 26th the credentials Of
/ several newly-elected Senators were presented
and placed on file. Resolutions instructing the
committee on privileges and elections to in'
| vesttsate alleged eutrages in Washington
| County, Tex, were passed The bill to es-
| tRblish agricultural experiment stations was
considered and laid over. The Railroad At
torney bill was called up and laid over In the
House estimates were submitted to meet ex-
| penditures required by the Mexican Pension
| bill The Senate Fisheries bill was referred to
the committee on foreign affairs, with leave to
| report at any time. The conference report or
the Army Appropriation bill was considered Id
49,
/ adopted and reported to the House, which re-
| lected it. Final action ON the bill was expect
ed the 27th-
! IN the Senate on the 9th several resolution
were offered and referred The Railroad At
| torneT bill was postponed until the 2Sth- Tht
! Dependent Soldiers bill passed; also the Agrt
| cultural Experiment Station bill The Sundry
/ Civil Appropriation bill was reported from the
/ committee. The River and HarbOr bill was re-
/ ceived and referred. In the House
/ the River and Harbor Appropriation bill was
/ passed. The bill for Incorporation of the WASH
/ ington %. c. Cable railway was called up, and
! hlibustering tactics were resorted to. The
1 House finally took a recess until eleven o'clock
/ a. of the 2Sth-
IN the Senate on the 28th Mr. Edmunds pre-
sented memorial for reduction or repeal of
| internal revenue taxes. Mr. Malone presented
| a petition from Virginia for repeal of the
] tobacco tax The RailrOad-Attorney bill was
4 considered The motion for reconsideration
| OF the Dependent Parents Pension bill
| was Withdrawn. In the House the WASH
] ington Gable Railway bill was passed A
/ resolution of the San Francisco Chamber
! of Commerce was presented, declaring against
/ the commercial treaty with Spain. The con-
ference report on the Militia bill was agreed to.
! Consideration of the Pleuro-PneumOnia bill OcA
/ cupied the remainder of the session.
! IN the Senate on the Goth the Yellowstone
/ Park bill was taken up and discussed The
! Railroad Attorney bill was postponed until the
/ 81st The Yellowstone Park bill was then
I taken up again, and after being amended was
! passed. Consideration Of the Pacific Railroad
| Funding bill was postponed until February z.
| ...... In the House the bill was passed appro-
| priating $4,000 for seed for the droughtstrick-
! en- counties in Texas. Several resolutions of
! minor Importance were offered. The Post
/ ONCE Appropriation bill was considered in
| committee CT the whole, reported to the House
/ and passed. The District OF Columbia ApprO-
! priation bill was passed.